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Originally Posted by kbhale
Hi all.
Plan to buy a new Dryer soon. Going electric this time. With a gas dryer , air is pulled from the house and pumped outside, so what ever is outside is sucked in to replace it. So I'm thinking electric dryer pumping humidified hotter air back into the house should be better than outside air being sucked in, most of the time.
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With a standard installation, an electric dryer will blow air out of your home, just like a gas dryer.
If you didn't pipe in some air from the outdoors, it will come inside via all the little nooks and crannies (air leaks).
Since your home isn't really air-tight like a space station.
I wonder which utility bill would be higher in your area? Gas or electric?
If Gas is a lot cheaper per BTU than electric, the BTU gain you get from venting moist air indoors,
might not make up for the cost of the electricity..
I don't spend any money to heat my basement, so it's always cold down there.
Just leakage from the boiler keeps the area in the 55F-65F range.
When the dryer runs, once a week, it ventilates the whole basement,
drawing cold clean outdoor air into the area from many small leaks.
The overall temperature drops a bit, but recovers in a few hours.
I look at this leakage as one way to clear out any lingering heating oil odors or radon gas..
